Glaciologists - Louis Agassiz, John Tyndall, Bill Mathews, Edward LaChapelle, James David Forbes, Richard Alley, Robert Bindschadler (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Louis Agassiz, John Tyndall, Bill Mathews, Edward LaChapelle, James David Forbes, Richard Alley, Robert Bindschadler, C. S. Wright, Sigurour orarinsson, Mark Dyurgerov, Jens Esmark, Mario Giovinetto, Austin Post, John Nye, Tavi Murray, James Thomson, Wilhelm Sievers, Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, Ignaz Venetz, Fritz Muller, Roy Koerner, Charles Rabot, Mauri S. Pelto, Tim Naish, Charles Bentley, Claude Lorius, Elizabeth Morris, Louis Rendu, List of glaciologists, Louis Lliboutry. Excerpt: John Tyndall FRS (2 August 1820 - 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere. Tyndall published seventeen books, which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wider audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, where he became the successor to positions held by Michael Faraday. Tyndall was born in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland. His father was a local police constable, descended from Gloucestershire emigrants who settled in southeast Ireland around 1670. Tyndall attended the local schools in County Carlow until his late teens, and was probably an assistant teacher near the end of his time there. Subjects learned at school notably included technical drawing and mathematics with some applications of those subjects to land surveying. He was hired as a draftsman by the government's land surveying & mapping agency in Ireland in his late teens in 1839, and moved to work for the same agency in England in 1842. In the decade of the 1840s, a railroad-building boom was in progress, and Tyndall's land surveying experience was valuable and in demand by the railway co...